Intelligence Deputy to America: "Rethink Privacy"

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/11/ter...e.ap/index.html

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information.

The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls without a FISA court order between 2001 and 2007.

It's a slippery slope that even George Orwell himself couldn't have foretold.